Bright is assistant dean of special programs and admissions in the Department of Medical Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University at 115 Heart Drive.

The event is sponsored by the ECU Student National Medical Association.

Best was Greenville’s first black physician. He died in 2005.

Tickets are $30 each or $15 for ECU students. Information is available by calling 252-744-2278 or e-mailing grimesa11@students.ecu.edu.